Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:49:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: user-space locks Message-ID: <20070310034755.S30274@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170703091602p62575a94i72554e8777e1b305@mail.gmail.com> References: <45F1A97D.7090608@cs.rice.edu> <989648.79906.qm@web32913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <b1fa29170703091455q7f60bdb2r92ddfa447e5657b7@mail.gmail.com> <45F1EEEC.3090506@elischer.org> <b1fa29170703091602p62575a94i72554e8777e1b305@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Kip Macy wrote: > Do you think that the umtx KPI may have reached the appropriate level of > maturity for writing up a man page? The KSE equivalent has had a substantive > man page for quite some time. I would be more than happy to do any of the > necessary technical copy-editing for the English. > > At this point I think you may be the only person well acquainted with the > KPI. Thanks. During our threading discussion and code-reading session at the dev summit, the KSE man page was very helpful in understanding what was going on; having similar man pages for the libthr and umtx system calls would have been very helpful. The interfaces are a lot less complicated, but man pages are very useful generally. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge > > -Kip > > > Kip Macy wrote: >> umtx > > julian@trafmon1:man -k umtx > umtx: nothing appropriate > julian@trafmon1: > > also if you use umtx I think you limit yourself to libthr. > > >> >> On 3/9/07, Peter Holmes <peter_holmes2003@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Does FreeBSD have anything similar to Futexes for >>> Linux. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Looking for earth-friendly autos? >>> Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. >>> http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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